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Welcome to Bagnegrole
 In this 17th century coaching inn comprising of six buildings, beautifully restored around the Manor House, we offer three charming gîtes in Dordogne near Saint Cyprien : "La Ferme aux Chènes" (8 persons), "La Maison des Arcades" (6 persons) and "La petite Forge" (2/3 persons). The 3 gîtes in Dordogne share a magnificent 17x7m swimming pool and a 10 hectares estate including flower gardens, fields with horses and sheep and a forest with shady walks. The picture below will help you to localize your future holiday home in Bagnegrole, and clicking on the name of the gîte, for to get its description.
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Entering Bagnegrole means discovering the Périgord from the inside, feeling echoes of the past, of the culture. It's a relaxing experience, time to read and to forget the city stress, |
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to listen to the rustling trees, the birds, the insects, to observe the old stone buildings, the “lauze” roofs with dormer windows and to watch the ever-changing skies, the hazy valleys... |
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Bagnegrole means also talking with the owners, tasting together some walnut wine or walking in the gardens. It's enjoying your holidays in a gîte in Dordogne with private terrace and garden, but also in the nooks and corners of the extensive estate, |
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on a bench, near the ponds, in the chapel or somewhere hidden in the forest. It's also exploring the fascinating surroundings, walking, running, cycling or even horse riding.. |
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Bagnegrole, it's also admiring the way the statues of Zimbabwe are exhibited, paintings, engravings or water colours in the studios of the artists leaving in the nearby villages and, why not, acquiring one of their artwork. |
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Bagnegrole means in Occitan : «spring of the crows». Bagnegrole it's a sort of cornerstone discovering medieval villages and castles, Romanesque chapels and prehistoric caves but, at the same time, a place of enjoying your own discovery... |
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Tracing the history of Bagnegrole
"Archives attest that Bagnegrole area has been dwelled in since prehistoric times and also during gallo-roman period. Sometimes pieces of flint or pottery are found when we work the soil. Traces of fire-place, steps or walls appear here and there in the property.
The mantel piece of « la Maison des Arcades » is dated 17th century and some of the buildings. The big house, so-called Manor House is almost fortified on its three strong arcades with walls of more than 3 feet.
Bagnegrole in the 17th century owned several farms on an estate covering about 600 hectares. Being on the road between Bordeaux and Souillac, the estate became a coaching inn. It is the reason why we gave the name ' La Petite Forge ' to the small house where we found 3m long bellows a forge with carved stones. The room upstairs was the place where the blacksmith lived and the antique "potager" (stone used as stove) on which he cooked is still visible.
The Revolution certainly caused great prejudice to this family of minor nobility who then merely cultivated the land and look after their livestock. At the entrance, the porch is dated from 1789, like most of them in the aera when the new revolutionary decrees abolished the tax on porches and windows. "
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